{"id":927,"date":"2012-03-09T19:33:40","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/?p=927"},"modified":"2012-03-09T19:41:54","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T17:41:54","slug":"robot-lifeguard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/2012\/03\/09\/robot-lifeguard\/","title":{"rendered":"Robot Lifeguard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i2.cdn.turner.com\/money\/2010\/10\/25\/technology\/robot_lifeguard\/emily.top.jpg\" alt=\"emily.top.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>About:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This robot was invented by inventor, entrepreneur and engineer Tony Mulligan. Named EMILY, an abbreviation of Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, it &#8220;can swim through riptides at a speed of up to 24 miles per hour.&#8221; This makes it 15 times as fat as a human lifeguard, according to Mulligan.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is powered with an electric pump that shoots a forceful stream of water&#8221;, and &#8220;has been tested at California&#8217;s Zuma Beach.&#8221; Lifeguards are in control of the robot, through a remote. The 2011 model features sonar technology and is controlled with an iPhone app, allowing it to detect riptides and people who have drowned.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reactions:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. &#8221; &#8216;From a technology perspective, [Emily] is quite innovative,&#8217; says Howie Choset, a robotics professor at Carnegie Mellon University. &#8216;To be able to maneuver such a small craft through choppy waters straight to a drowning victim is incredible.&#8217; &#8221;<\/p>\n<p>2. &#8221; &#8216;This is a classic example of an inventor&#8217;s idea of how to solve a problem that doesn&#8217;t necessarily coincide with reality,&#8217; says B. Chris Brewster, president of the United States Lifesaving Association. He notes that a robotic floatation device &#8212; no matter how nifty &#8212; can&#8217;t save an unconscious swimmer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Video demonstrating how the robot works:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"CNN Tech: A Look at EMILY the Lifeguard\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Px3W_WzGwG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,2029497_2030615_2029800,00.html\">http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/specials\/packages\/article\/0,28804,2029497_2030615_2029800,00.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/10\/25\/technology\/robot_lifeguard\/index.htm\">http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2010\/10\/25\/technology\/robot_lifeguard\/index.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About: This robot was invented by inventor, entrepreneur and engineer Tony Mulligan. Named EMILY, an abbreviation of Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, it &#8220;can swim through riptides at a speed of up to 24 miles per hour.&#8221; This makes it 15 times as fat as a human lifeguard, according to Mulligan. &#8220;It is powered with an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":953,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ruthtrumpold.id.au\/blogs\/designtech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}